The Economic Cooperation Organization, ECO, has named Iran's northern city of Sari the tourism capital of the ECO region in 2022.

The first freight train to run from Pakistan to Turkey through Iran has departed Tuesday after a 10-year hiatus.

Iran’s president says there will be no room for sedition and foreign interference in the region if regional states resolve their issues through dialog.

President Ebrahim Raeisi has assured Iran’s neighbors that US sanctions will have no bearing on regional cooperation and interaction. 

Iran’s exports to bloc of ECO countries rose to over $6 billion in the seven months to late October. 

The US withdrawal from the JCPOA and its sanctions against Iran, in addition to Russia’s geopolitical difficulties with the West, have led these two countries to expand their cooperation within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union.

A key road corridor linking Pakistan and Turkey through Iran is launched on a pilot basis.

The Iranian Parliament speaker urges collective parliamentary action on the part of ECO to confront Islamophobia.

In Tehran, a celebration dubbed “Norouz, an Occasion for Solidarity” has been held in the Economic Cooperation Organization Cultural Institute to mark the arrival of Spring and the Persian New Year. 

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic believes in strong neighborhood policy and aims to pursue the objective.